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Baking with Meyer Lemons Baking with Meyer Lemons, One of the Cook’s Privileges. Where is the recipe? Comiiiinnnnnnng…I know you will excuse the wait, won’t you? February is already too busy, and then, the weather was just too nice today to stay in. It almost felt like Spring in the air. And a reminder: the [...]

Saturday at home When I open my eyes, the alarm clock indicates 6:30 am and surprisingly, I do not feel tired. After all, it is my first good night sleep in the past week, so I gladly welcome the change despite the early hour. P. is cozily wrapped under the duvet and blankets, with only [...]

Lime Mousse and Apple Tartlet I’ve just come for a few minutes in-between projects to tell you something. After experimenting with flours again, white rice with quinoa and cornstarch combined this time, I’ve created an amazingly good sweet crust — gluten-free. I am so excited that I had to stop by and tell someone else [...]

Broccoflower Soup and Tartines The snow keeps falling in steady flurries as I am casually eating my soup at the dining room table. We’ve had almost four seasons in one day, which does not surprise anyone living in New England. I look at the clock staring in my direction to realize that it is not [...]

Taking it Easy Perhaps you are amongst those who celebrate Valentine’s day. If so, have a wonderful day. P. and I? We typically prefer to keep it low key at home, entre-nous sans la foule, with a homemade meal and nice music to listen to — and I am still not sure what we will [...]

Indulge The week has been long. Has it been for you too? I am just wrecked. And while some people prefer a glass of wine — perhaps you — others like dessert. Moi ? Both. Preferably in the open air. Let’s say, it would be nice at the top of a mountain in the snow. [...]

Stewed Red Cabbage with Apples Unlike many young children, I always had a fascination for red cabbage. During the cold winters found in Lorraine where I grew up, I recall begging my mother to cook with this often forgotten vegetable; I especially craved her chou rouge aux pommes, a rather popular French dish. As as [...]

Jerusalem Artichoke Soup It really started with a casual walk by the river near our house. The walk I take every day when I am not too busy — and even when I am, I go anyway since I am a countryside girl after all — it must run in my genes. I particularly like [...]

Les canards en hiver All right, I know I came here today without an exact recipe, but I felt to come anyway. The thing is that I really wanted to share with you a few images I took yesterday at the park during my walk. The ducks! They really made me smile when I saw [...]

Guy Martin, photo courtesy of Pat Greenhouse from the Boston Globe; food pictures from Le Grand Véfour official website I am not sure whether I realize yet how lucky I was when two weeks ago, I sat down in an office in the North End in Boston to chat with Guy Martin, three-star michelin chef [...]

Bicolor Vegetable Soup Small and simple events in life suffice to make us happy, and it is a good thing. Being contacted by Kristina, an editor from Design Sponge, was one. Their website is eye-candy… a wonderful trove of design ideas. “Moi ? Really?” “One of their editors wants to feature my blog on their [...]